Edward Bates Quotes

• Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

  Edward Bates

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• I long for the days of good honest crooks.

  Edward Bates

  Long, Crooks, Honest

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